Students will role-play an enactment of the discussion and signing of the treaty following their research into the setting and the events that occurred during the signing.

Students will create an artistic depiction of the scene witnessed at the signing of the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty of 1830.

Students will write a fictional historical narrative from one of the following perspectives. Instruct students to follow the steps in the writing process; use writing rubrics for historical narrative, which can be found in the Assessments section of this Learning Center, to critique.

Viewpoint of a teenager present at the treaty discussions conducted by the leaders of the Choctaw Nation and the representatives of the United States government. (This could be written from the first or third person narrative point of view.)

Sights and sounds of activities going on in the campground during the discussions and signing of the treaty (to be written from a first person perspective).

Write from the viewpoint of a Choctaw adult making the decision to stay in the Mississippi territory or to travel to Oklahoma. (Make a decision and explain the reasons for it using researched information.)

Extended Activities:

Research other treaties that have affected other Native American Indian tribes.

Create a story board depicting the history of the Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty. (A timeline could be developed that includes pictures that show the effects of the removal on tribal members, a diagram of the setting of the scene at the Dancing Rabbit Creek during the signing, etc.)

Create a journal written from a child's point of view on the hardships of the Trail of Tears.

Calculate the distance traveled by the Choctaw tribal members who relocated to Oklahoma after the signing of the Treaty of 1830.

Research hardships faced during the relocation process.

Research and describe the change in the ways treaties are formed today.

Reasearch and describe the ways that voting by Native Americans has changed from 1830 to the present.